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  • 30 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 30

inflation-indexed bond markets in the U.S. and the U.K. It documents a massive decline in long-term real interest rates from the 1990s until 2008, followed by a sudden spike in these rates during the financial crisis of 2008. Breakeven View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

higher than inflation of the competing currency(ies). I also don’t understand how it can be “legal” tender for any period of time since, in general, governments want to control everything, especially money, if possible. — Pete Pifer (PMD... View Details
Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information
  • December 2022
  • Case

The Magic of Marks & Spencer Food

By: David E. Bell, Natalie Kindred and Damien McLoughlin
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Food; Consumer Behavior; Product Development; Competition; Price; Inflation and Deflation; Trends; Growth and Development; Strategy; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United Kingdom
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  • July 2005 (Revised December 2006)
  • Case

Japan: Deficits, Demography, and Deflation

By: Richard H.K. Vietor
By 2005, Japan's debt had risen to 163% of GDP. For more than a decade, the government had run huge deficits, trying unsuccessfully to stimulate economic growth. Interest rates, meanwhile, had been zero for years. But with slow growth and banks in crisis, nothing had... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Economic Growth; Demographics; Financial Condition; Inflation and Deflation; Banks and Banking; Borrowing and Debt; Macroeconomics; Policy; Government and Politics; Welfare; Health Care and Treatment; Japan
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  • 05 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

information about the risk of future economic crashes and deserve more scrutiny from policymakers, economists, and regulators. The paper emerges after years of persistent inflation and mounting interest rates, and amid close scrutiny of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 20 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind

up premiums for everyone else,” Edelman says. “As an ordinary consumer, your rates will go up whether or not you ever use Uber yourself.” (In related research, Edelman argues that online travel intermediaries like Expedia end up inflating... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Transportation; Insurance
  • March 2005 (Revised June 2005)
  • Case

Capital Controls in Chile in the 1990s (B)

By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Governance Controls; Financial Crisis; Foreign Direct Investment; Currency Exchange Rate; Inflation and Deflation; Demand and Consumers; Interest Rates; Capital; System; Central Banking; Chile
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  • 15 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

on compensation of talented people, then you stop this mechanism, and you run the risk of having your company be less profitable," Vallée says. "You're putting a friction on a competitive market that's doing what it's meant to do." He notes, though, that market forces... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
  • 18 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 18

inflation with a devalued currency, despite massive capital inflows and a huge current account deficit. At home, the government has carefully managed between Islamicization, democracy, and secularism. And abroad, it deals with a difficult... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 22 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

former chairman Alan Greenspan for holding interest rates too low for too long, which inflated the housing bubble with cheap credit. And it scolds the SEC for allowing the credit rating agencies to operate like a cartel without... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Hard Choices

What longer-term good would this possibly accomplish? Isn’t it clear that Wall Street goes through mood swings, that what might float the market’s boat this week might sink it the next? And might not an artificially inflated stock price... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
  • Article

Fly-by-Night Firms and the Market for Product Reviews

By: Gerald R. Faulhaber and Dennis A. Yao
This paper presents a model that permits third-party information provision in a market characterized by information asymmetries and reputation formation. The model is used to examine how the market for information provision affects prices and supply in the primary... View Details
Keywords: Markets; Reputation; SWOT Analysis; Mathematical Methods; Price Bubble; Inflation and Deflation; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Cost; Information; Quality; Price; Competitive Advantage; Information Industry
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  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path

one economic lesson from the crisis is that government support really works. Look at where we are today with inflation and supply chain problems—I’m not saying those are good things, but we certainly are not living with a hangover from... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

the Internet," he concluded. "This will favor the cheapest suppliers and keenest buyers and thus hold down prices and inflation while raising productivity." Ever-changing Demands In his remarks, the NYSE's Cochrane... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
  • Profile

Adam Kanner

whether it’s a sports team, a promoter, a Broadway show or a concert venue. ScoreBig also works with ticket brokers and any legitimate/verified source with unsold inventory. Unlike StubHub, which generally offers hard-to-get tickets at View Details
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

Andrea Silbert

girls living on the streets to launch businesses, and Silbert found the work difficult but worthwhile. “It was the toughest job I’ve ever had,” she says, noting that inflation rose an astounding 40,000 percent in the eighteen months she... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • June 2011
  • Teaching Note

The Suzlon Edge (TN)

By: Richard H.K. Vietor
Teaching Note for 708051. View Details
Keywords: Price; Non-Renewable Energy; Investment; Problems and Challenges; Climate Change; Globalization; Renewable Energy; Inflation and Deflation; Production; Machinery and Machining; Family Ownership; Policy; Energy Industry
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  • Article

Power to the People

By: Eric D. Werker

Every nongovernmental organization has a mission statement. For example, CARE, one of the world's largest and best-funded NGOs, explains its mission as serving "individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Drawing strength from our global... View Details

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Food; Service Operations; Inflation and Deflation; Experience and Expertise; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Knowledge; Poverty; Agribusiness; Diversity; Non-Governmental Organizations; Innovation and Invention; India
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  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

of time, the safe strategy is to invest in long-term coupon bonds (or annuities), not cash. There is catch with this, though. Standard annuities and Treasury bonds pay fixed coupons, and inflation can seriously erode the purchasing power... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

management-labor relations with rising unemployment. Government's role in education, technology, and Hong Kong's competiveness is being reassessed. And the emphasis has shifted from asset inflation to deflation. The focus in Hong Kong now... View Details
Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services